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  The Wilmington Volunteer Fire Department

  Annexed by the City of Los Angeles
  Engine Company 38

  T49 transferred in and becomes Truck 38

  Task Force 38, RA 38

1870

8/28/1909


1949

Present

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124 East "I" Street, Wilmington

 124 East "I" Street, Wilmington 
(new building)

1870



1917

1948
to Present


WILMINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 1909

Scott Photo
San Pedro, Cal.
September 19, 1909


FIRST ROW:  MIKE LOPEZ *  LEANDER BUELNA  *  FRANK LENARDO  *   JOHNNE FRANCIS  *  JOAQUIAN LENARDO  *  MUCK LOPEZ 
VICTOR GARCIA  * J OHN LENARDO  *  TINO RAMIREZ  *  JOHNNIE VERELA

SECOND ROW:
  JACK RAMIREZ  *  ED JOHNSON  *  DAVID MAIN SR  *  GEORGE GANNAWAY  *  DWIGHT HERMAN  *  DAVID WOODS
J.P. PUCKETT  *  BEDEL ARCE  *  ED CONNORS

THIRD ROW:  FRED HERMAN  *  EDDIE LOPEZ  *  MIKE LOPEZ  *  J.V. SILVA  *  ANTON MELE  *  VICTOR MATTHEWS  *  GEORGE O'BRIEN

FOURTH ROW:
  BLUE SHIELDS  *  ANDREW YOUNG  *  ED BREEN  *  NEAL VAN FLEET

PRESENTED TO ENGINE CO. 38
 * * FROM THE ESTATE OF EMIL L. MENVEG 1965 * *


FIRE DEPARTMENT.

  A volunteer Fire Department (with hook and ladder) numbering thirty-five members, was organized in 1870.  The present Captain is W. H. Ormsby;  Secretary, James Torn.  The company has a small hall.

Source: Wilmington-Historical Societies


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